Lifestyle AUTUMN / WINTER 15-16 The community will find new methods for creating a product, bringing into picture FORECAST −skill, people and quality. aking pride in the idea of creation and innovation, the winter of T 2015 will be a season of global celebration. Graduating from a Colours hard hitting recession, to a summer which believed in exploration Colour palettes are derived and restoring what felt lost, we will evolve into a season of total from lifestyles, bringing out rediscovery. The community will find new methods of making a the feeling of preferences and choices made product, a notch higher than cheap industrialisation, based on the mind and hand bringing into picture − skill, people and quality. Craft and technology together will be well tried and well accepted notions that will form a new foundation of our day to day life. The ‘cloud’ age will connect the world in ways which are exhilarating to Yarns imagine and the planet will become smaller than ever. Long gone Fibres intertwine together ideas will reemerge to form new ones, and conversing with the creating yarns inspired by green of nature will be of utmost importance. In all, from a recent nature, science, culture and technology time where we were discovering different media of art and using them as only as an expression to be noticed, we will evolve into a time where society would be investing in such ideas, and the price will be paid for by the ethereal value of a product. Fabrics Cultural influences, technical finishes, natural rough surfaces and traditional knitting techniques together bring out the fabric themes. Prints Prints this season portray the sentiment of expression, solid architecture and splatter through mixed media 132 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | lifestyle | FFT magazine 133 AUTUMN/WINTER 2015-16 THE AGE OF TOTAL “REDISCOVERY” –A world where human and technology will be one. 1 14 134 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | lifestyle | FFT magazine 135 An infinite journey of pushing information and media to ‘infinity and beyond'… -Google 2 136 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | lifestyle | FFT magazine 5 4 Sports define a meaningfulsocial activity – Societies are built on the basis of continual data that records healthier global lifestyles. 3 138 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | lifestyle | FFT magazine 139 6 Interior spaces move closer to nature with the ease of industrial design technology - rustic and minimal homes define the new industrial chic. 6 140 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | lifestyle | FFT magazine 141 Traditional concepts of the human mastermind meet automation and robotics of the present to create products that are unique in this new ‘human-space'. 8 142 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | lifestyle | FFT magazine 143 The ones who defy modernism - weave and knit architectural designs that are organic, not to lose a sense of all things ‘indigenous'. 9 144 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | lifestyle | FFT magazine 145 10 A hybrid world is in the making –bringing together ‘bio and synthetic' objects to create a ‘biotech self-sustaining world'. 11 12 146 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | lifestyle | FFT magazine 147 ‘Waste' forms the source for natural raw material to facilitate design that is crafted to create a sustainable hi-tech future. 13 148 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | colour | FFT magazine 149 PANTONE PANTONE 14-0756 TPX 15-2718 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 17-1564 TPX 14-4313 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 14-1506 TPX 17-6031 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 18-3949 TPX 19-3138 TPX HYPER-CONNECT This fall, technology comes into the spotlight, bringing in the inspiring and unexpected collaborations between man and the virtual world. Different time zones, miles of distance, or even a lost phone number, nothing in today’s world can come in between a heartfelt conversation between two people. With apps and social media platforms at the consumer’s fingertips, the virtual world has now connected millions across the planet. The cheerful shades of Empire Yellow, Fiesta, Jelly Bean, Dazzling Blue and Fuchsia Pink depict the loopholes of space and time bridging illustrating global linkages. 1 150 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | colour | FFT magazine 151 PANTONE PANTONE 17-4139 TPX 19-3939 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 16-0230 TPX 18-1658 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 18-3905 TPX 14-0756 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 16-1451 TPX 14-4816 TPX CULTURAL FEST The confines of cultures widen when different ethnicities of the world open their doors to foreign lands, joining hands and celebrating a global fest of tradition and folklore. The new interpretations of handicraft techniques and traditional skills continue to fascinate the world, painting a picture of an indigenous past in the tints of Macaw Green, Empire Yellow and Pompeian Red. Picking up the blues of the open sky and the indigo dye, the palette comes together as a decorative authentic mix with the shades of the sun and hues of the bloom. 2 152 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | colour | FFT magazine 153 PANTONE PANTONE 15-4105 TPX 14-0434 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 13-0758 TPX 18-1445 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 18-2027 TPX 14-1230 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 18-1664 TPX 19-1322 TPX ORGANIC AFFAIR Owing to the changing environment, people are impelled to adapt a healthier lifestyle and with growing inclination for an organic production process, clothing and food habits, acquire the territory of organic commodities. Drawn from the roots, the tints of brown stone and fiery red edifices trace the path of organic living, whereas healthy shades of spicy orange, apricot wash and green banana come together as a natural palette with zero artificial colour building a sustainable food basket for the future. 3 154 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | colour | FFT magazine 155 PANTONE PANTONE 17-1464 TPX 19-1656 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 12-0643 TPX 19-0419 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 15-1049 TPX 16-0237 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 16-2111 TPX 14-1907 TPX NOURISHED In this frenetic world, a healthier lifestyle, an active routine, a nourished diet chart, and the will to pursue recreational activities is the new priority of life. To bring a balance into their fast paced lives, and to diminish the concerns of diseases and gradually shortening life-cycle, consumers adapt the trend of exercise and meditation. Red Orange, Blazing Yellow, Foliage, Baton Rouge, Riffle Green, Artisan’s Gold, Peach skin and Mauve Orchid, from the fruity juices, salad greens and root vegetables provide for a ‘nutri-card’ of colours, depicting marriage of health and performance. 4 156 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | colour | FFT magazine 157 PANTONE PANTONE 13-4108 TPX 19-5513 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 17-2601 TPX 19-1655 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 18-1404 TPX 14-1212 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 18-1235 TPX 19-1327 TPX PROCESSED – UNPROCESSED Although living in a commercial set-up, the consumer, fearful of losing the green, takes refuge under the umbrella of nature and constructs spaces around him with true impressions of raw beauty that nature beholds. Logs, planks, bark and branches with their unprocessed textures bring out the shades of Nimbus Cloud, Zinc, Frappe, Russet, Dark Green, Garnet and Sparrow in a processed construction. The quest for bringing nature into the household displays a wonderful array of nature’s spectrum, transforming the traditional looking colours into something more modern. 5 158 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | colour | FFT magazine 159 PANTONE PANTONE 16-1620 TPX 13-1108 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 17-1449 TPX 16-1310 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 19-1617 TPX 19-1762 TPX PANTONE PANTONE 19-3526 TPX 19-0230 TPX ACRIMONY This season witnesses the birth of an individual who rediscovers the emotion of strong malevolence. This maleficent individual not only brings out the dark side of the fairy tales and takes inspirations from the lavish evil queen, but also embodies a mysterious and hidden strength. Emulating the mystifying ambiance, the dark hues of purples and browns display the depth and intensity of a mysterious and hidden strength, mixed with a hint of sinister romance depicted through tints of Tea Rose, Pureed Pumpkin, Crimson, Meadow Violet, Burgundy and deep Garden Green. 6 Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | yarns | FFT magazine CONTEMPORARY FOLK STRUCTURED Taking up the influences from traditional artistry, this story This fall, technology comes into the spotlight, bringing in looks upon the dynamic and vibrant handmade aspect of an array of inspiring and unexpected collaboration between yarn creation. Wool and cotton fibres are tufted, twisted varied fibres and industrial paraphernalia. Smooth and and looped in irregular structures in the process of re- polished structures are created with much ease owing to the awakening the age-old techniques with a contemporary varied possibility of machinery and manufacturing options. twist. Multicolour slubs intertwine with needle punched Polyesters and cottons are coated and waxed to display their fur yarns to bring out an artistic and vibrant entity creating glorious laminated surface. Fibres are plied together around assemblies of texturised fabrics. Medleys of marbled and a stiff yarn to gather maximum area for light reflection. mixed fibres interweave an array of layered and rhythmic Techniques, machines and logic are applied to expedite the braids incepting a fairytale about the amalgamation of increasing realms of smooth, glossy and filament-like yarns. creativity and expression. The lines are curved and layers are austerely superimposed to build fluid and articulated yarns. Fashion Forward Trends autumn/winter 2015-16 | yarns | FFT magazine RAW BIO-SYNTHETIC Minerals, organic surfaces, composite natural forms and all To develop the sense of belongingness and dominion, an things raw have incepted a chronicle of degeneration and urge to regain contact with the holistic ecosystem gives psychedelia.